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Product Identifiers
PublisherHeinemann
ISBN-100867094990
ISBN-139780867094992
eBay Product ID (ePID)1708225
Product Key Features
Educational LevelHigh School, Elementary School
Number of Pages176 Pages
Publication NameMinding the Body : What Student Athletes Know about Learning
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGeneral, Financial Aid
Publication Year2001
TypeStudy Guide
Subject AreaEducation, Study Aids
AuthorJulie Cheville, Bonnie S. Sunstein
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight9 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceElementary/High School
LCCN2001-035780
Dewey Edition21
Grade FromCollege Freshman
Dewey Decimal378.1/9828/796
Grade ToCollege Senior
Table Of ContentContents: 1. The Transformation of Space into Place 2. The Pursuit of Systemic Balance 3. The Efficacy of Emotion 4. Academic Integrity: The Need for "Live Encounters" 5. Minding the Body Afterword: Reflexive Ethnography and the Undoing of a Scholarly Warrior
SynopsisMinding the Body describes how sites of learning within a single institution can require distinct, sometimes conflicting, ways of knowing. Over a two-year period, Julie Cheville observed key episodes in the athletic and academic learning of members of a single intercollegiate basketball team. Their testimony highlights the influential partnership of mind and body. On the court, the student athletes depended upon ritualized bodily activity to enter into relational knowing. Coaches and players perceived the human body as central to understanding. In the classroom, where learning was often characterized by the transmission of information, cognition was detached from concrete activity and interaction. Dispelling the myth that language is the sole determiner of thought, Cheville explores the implications of academic settings that ignore or devalue the conceptual significance of the body. Drawing upon her former experiences as writing instructor, academic tutor, and basketball coach, Cheville notes the effect of fragmented institutional sites. She indicates how an overarching ideological divide between thought (academic) and body (athletic) aggravated the conceptual orientations student athletes maintained. Among a host of recommendations, Cheville suggests the need for writing instruction in classrooms and academic support programs that minds the body by assisting students to draw upon their situated experiences of being and knowing for the purposes of critical inquiry., Dispelling the myth that language is the sole determiner of thought, Cheville explores the implications of academic settings that ignore or devalue the conceptual significance of the body.